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Quotation by Thomas Henry Huxley
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A Liberal Education Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews (1870)Aphorisms and Reflections selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #114 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #122 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #228 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #247, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).
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